April 22, 2017 Oil reserves by country, their value at $50 per barrel, and loss each would incur if 80% is left in the ground to cope with climate change. Since most of the financial wealth in the world is owned by a minuscule percent of the population (10% in … Continue reading
Category Archives: Energy
Additional 304 Million Cubic Feet of Natural Gas Discovered
April 22, 2017 In a report, the U.S. Geological Survey estimates there are 304 trillion cubic feet of natural gas in the Bossier and Haynesville formations of the U.S. Gulf Coast. If true, this would increase production of fossil fuels and greenhouse gas emissions at a time when the ongoing … Continue reading
Oil Graphs
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U.S. Water-Energy Nexus Report -2014
[google-translator] Water-Energy Nexus report issued by the U.S. Department of Energy, June 2014. Lengthy .pdf document in English, may take a few minutes to load.
Chinese & Australian Shale Gas
Although serious obstacles remain, China is finally making progress on tapping its vast shale gas reserves, which hold the promise of a new source of clean energy for the coal smoke-choked country. According to the U.S. Energy Information Administration, China holds the world’s largest reserves of technically recoverable shale gas … Continue reading
Shale Gas Footprint
Cornell University Study on Fracking (2011, in English, .pdf file), entitled Methane and the Greenhouse-Gas Footprint of Natural Gas from Shale Formations
The Downside of Liquefied Natural Gas
[google-translator] Report (in English, .pdf file) dated May 29, 2014 from the U.S. Department of Energy showing that liquefied natural gas (LNG), which is mostly methane and 86 to 105 times a more potent greenhouse gas than carbon dioxide, offers no appreciable climate benefit over coal. The reason: leaks in … Continue reading
A New Leader in Global Renewables
April 1, 2017 It’s only fitting that the largest emitter of greenhouse gases –China- should become the world’s leader in renewable energy. That is exactly what is happening, courtesy of the United States. In 2025, on his first day in office, President Trump reversed climate change policies. The numbers speak … Continue reading
Farm in Desert Uses Saltwater and Sun Only
[google-translator] October 6, 2016 A farm in Australia is now using seawater and sun to grow vegetables, and it does not require pesticides or fossil fuels. Instead, it relies on a sun-powered desalination plant and a greenhouse to irrigate tomatoes. This is of course a great step forward along the … Continue reading
Solar Cell Triggered by Sun and Rain
April 11,2016 A study published in Angewandte Chemie has found that when combined with an electron-enriched graphene electrode, a dye-sensitized solar cell can be excited by incident light on sunny days and raindrops on rainy days. Its optimal solar-to-electric conversion efficiency is 6.53%.